WAYWARD GIRL
APPEARANCE BEFORE COURT By Telegrnph—Press Association AUCKLAND, November 27. Muriel May Calderwood, aged 18, who recently was thrashed by her father in Queen Street, pie. ded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly. The police said that after her parents had reported her missing from home, the police noticed her occasionally in the vicinity of the wharves until tele early morning hours in undesirable company. Since the thrashing incident she had been in the Salvation Army Home. An official from the Home said that the girl had since been well behaved. The father wanted her to return home but witness did not think it was desirable.
Mr Aekins, for the girl, said that she and her father had settled their differences. The latter was prepared to take her to New Plymouth for a new start.
Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M. t ordered her to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months, meanwhile to remain in the Salvation Army Home. If well behaved no more would be heard of the case.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 19 (Supplement)
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176WAYWARD GIRL Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 19 (Supplement)
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